Secrets is a compilation of bootleg recordings made between 1978 and 1981 of recitals given by Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer. Fischer disliked studio work, and without these unofficial tapes her wonderful legacy would be considerably smaller.
Read MoreFollowing a silence of six years Hungaroton has published a second double album from the Anna Dévény legacy. The famous physiotherapist recorded Annie Fischer’s concerts – in secret, until it was revealed – with a tape recorder qualifying good at the time hidden in a bag. We would be poorer without these pirate recordings today. And in this particular case we would be much poorer.
Read MoreHungarian pianist Annie Fischer (1914–1995) was born in Budapest and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there with Ernő Dohnányi. In 1933 she won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in her native city and in the many decades that followed she enjoyed a prolific career, playing mainly in Europe and Australia.
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